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Description Wooden Kharosthi document found at Loulan, China by Aurel Stein (L.A. VI ii 0234) (also cataloged as CKD 696)
Date 3rd century A.D.?
Source Aurel Stein, Serindia. London, 1921. Volume IV, plate xxxix
Author Unknown authorUnknown author Vasudeva?
Vasudeva pays his respects at the feet of the master, his dear father the great gusura Bhatiga, and asks after the health of his divine body, again and again, many hundreds of thousands of crores of times. My report is as follows. I came here from Krorayina and brought the rete camels. Up till to-day there has been no buying and selling. This I make known at your feet. I wish to return to Krorayina. Whatever news there is of you there, you should send me a letter. I will bring it to my father the gusura in Krorayina, at the time you have to go. Also the royal dues (harga) from this village were granted to us from the feet of his majesty. Now the authorities are causing much pain to the slaves. For that reason, along with the gusura Pumnasa [...] is to be made. This is the third time that I have sent a letter of information to the feet of the gusura. I have heard nothing from there. To my dear elder brother Bhatisama [...]
translator: Thomas Burrow in A Translation of the Kharoṣṭhī Documents from Chinese Turkestan § 696

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